family planning

World Population Day 2023: Experts share how significant the role of family planning is

July 11, 2023 10:50 am

Family planning is essential when individuals and couples decide the timing and spacing of their pregnancies, said Dr Khushali Lalcheta, consultant physician at HCG Hospital, Rajkot

Tribal man from Odisha, who abandoned wife for tubectomy, counselled for family planning for 9 years

February 19, 2023 8:53 pm

Local ASHA worker Bijaylaxmi Biswal told The Indian Express that she had also tried persuading the man for a vasectomy but he never agreed.

Delimitation on population basis unfair to southern states: DMK MP

December 20, 2022 1:58 am

Tamil Nadu is the only state which successfully implemented the family planning programme proposed by the Union government, the MP said.

Many more women sterilised than men in last three years in Mumbai: BMC

August 23, 2021 8:29 pm

Data show that from 2018-19 to 2020-21, the BMC sterilized 48,725 women in Mumbai, while only 350 men chose vasectomy under the family planning programme.

Himanta urges minority community to adopt 'decent family planning policy' for poverty reduction

June 10, 2021 2:23 pm

Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said that his government will work towards educating the women of the community so that the problem can be tackled effectively.

Delhi govt starts campaign to encourage family planning

November 27, 2019 2:43 am

In 2018, around 500 men were sterilised while around 17,000 women opted for a tubectomy in the capital.

‘We need to talk about our bodies’: 22-year-old Naga girl wins Gates Foundation initiative

September 17, 2019 12:03 pm

22-year-old Sekulu Nyekha from Nagaland is among 40 winners selected for an initiative by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to raise awareness about family planning and reproductive health around the world.

Contraception in African country: Health workers in Rwanda use Bible to spread family planning message

November 13, 2018 12:05 am

Centre plans saas-bahu meets to promote family planning

June 16, 2017 6:13 am

The Sammelans will be part of a new family planning initiative called Mission Parivar Vikas.

Lack of enough children turns nearly half of Kerala's schools uneconomic

June 07, 2016 11:03 am

Of the 12,615 schools in Kerala, which comprise government, private and government-aided private ones, as many as 5,573 — 44 per cent — are uneconomic as per the state Economic Review 2015.